A U.S. Air Force cargo plane headed for Antarctica turned around mid-flight and returned to New Zealand after authorities issued a hazard warning tied to a planned Russian missile launch, and neither the Pentagon nor Moscow has publicly explained what happened next. The C-17 Globemaster III, flying ...

Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao has named M. Barry Tanner as the service's permanent chief information officer, handing a 31-year naval veteran control of a $12 billion technology portfolio at a moment when the Pentagon is racing to push artificial intelligence onto the battlefield. Cao announ...

A 21-year-old California man has admitted to killing four people and setting their home ablaze in what prosecutors call a calculated act of revenge after a romantic breakup, and now faces life in prison without parole. Miguel Diego Sandoval pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder with s...

The U.S. Navy is flatly denying reports that women aboard the USS Boxer have run out of feminine hygiene products during an extended Middle East deployment, but families of sailors say the official story does not match what they are hearing from the ship. The Navy posted a statement to social media ...

The House Ethics Committee formally disclosed an investigation into Rep. Jimmy Gomez over allegations he engaged in inappropriate sexual contact with a congressional staffer, the latest in a growing string of misconduct cases roiling Capitol Hill. The bipartisan panel announced Monday that it is rev...

New Mexico State Police confirmed that a handgun discovered beside the skeletal remains of missing Los Alamos National Laboratory worker Melissa Casias belonged to her husband, a revelation that deepens questions her family says have gone unanswered for more than a year. Casias, a 53-year-old admini...

President Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to "substantially reduce" long-standing joint military exercises with South Korea on the eve of a major scheduled drill, a move that caught the Pentagon off guard and contradicted Hegseth's own praise of the alliance just months earlier. Trump i...

A bus carrying Polish pilgrims home from Bosnia-Herzegovina flipped into a ditch on a Hungarian motorway early Sunday morning, killing 12 and leaving at least 10 seriously injured, with police saying the driver likely fell asleep at the wheel. The crash happened around 1 a.m. on the eastbound lanes ...

Torrential rain has killed six people and left many more missing across central Indiana, where the White River shattered century-old flood records, prompting President Trump to approve a federal emergency declaration for the state. More than 11 inches of rain fell over a two-day stretch in parts of ...

A 19-year-old non-student was arrested and charged with eight felonies after police found him hiding in a campus dormitory closet following an early-morning shooting at Virginia State University that left five people wounded, one critically. Camron Harris of Henrico, Virginia, was apprehended Saturd...